The Congress on Tuesday asked the government to investigate as to why the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) put up on its website the names of over one million people who had written to it on net neutrality.

India's web index score at 32.4 is ahead of China (31.1) and Pakistan (10.4), shows the 2013 study by World Wide Web Foundation. The organisation was established in 2009 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

China`s rulers will ultimately take it upon themselves to dismantle the "great firewall" that limits its people`s access to the Internet because doing so will boost China`s economy, the inventor of the World Wide Web said.